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Analyst Calls: APC, DLTR, ENR, ERTS, KKR, NUAN, QSFT, WAG, WWW ...

Posted Feb 2nd 2011 12:00PM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Walgreen Co (WAG), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Analyst Initiations, Anadarko Petroleum (APC)

Analyst Upgrades

Electronic Arts (ERTS) to overweight from neutral at Piper Jaffray.
Helix Energy (HLX) to overweight from equal weight at Morgan Stanley.
Quest Software (QSFT) to neutral from sell at Goldman.
LTX-Credence (LTXC) to buy from hold at Needham.
Anadarko (APC) to buy from hold at Canaccord.
Walgreen (WAG) to hold from sell at Citigroup.
Pericom (PSEM) to buy from hold at ThinkEquity.

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Option Traders Buying CA Technologies Calls and Tibco Puts

Posted Aug 27th 2010 8:30AM by Wade Hansen (RSS feed)
Filed under: CA Inc (CA), Options, Stocks to Buy, Stocks to Sell

Option traders appear to be setting up for a bullish move on CA Technologies (CA). Traders plowed into 4,799 new call option contracts -- 13.87 times the average volume -- on the stock on Thursday. And we know that traders were eager to get into this trade because 98% of the trades came in on the "ask" price.

CA Technologies closed Thursday at $18.13. The stock has dropped 7.64% during the past month, but it is currently sitting at support just above $18.

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Analyst calls: AMR, DAL, UAUA, RYAAY, BIIB, SHW, EQ, INTU, NYT, GOOG, YHOO ...

Posted Oct 28th 2008 10:25AM by Laurie Pasternack (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), New York Times'A' (NYT), AMR Corp (AMR), UAL Corp (UAUA), Intuit Inc (INTU), Analyst Initiations, Delta Air Lines (DAL), Andersons Inc (ANDE)

Analyst upgrades:

Calyon upgraded major network carriers based on falling oil prices and capacity cuts. The analyst is positive over the next 12 months but cautious short-term given the uncertain economy, and volatile markets and oil prices. AMR Corp (NYSE: AMR) and Delta Air (NYSE: DAL) were upgraded to Add from Neutral and UAL Corp (NASDAQ: UAUA) was raised to Neutral from Reduce.
Ryanair (NASDAQ: RYAAY) was upgraded at Citigroup to Buy from Hold.
Boardwalk Pipeline (NYSE: BWP) was raised to Buy from Hold at Deutsche Bank.
Cowen lifted Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) to Outperform from Neutral.
JP Morgan upgraded Choice Hotels (NYSE: CHH) to Neutral from Underweight following the better-than-expected Q3 report.
Oppenheimer upgraded shares of Integra LifeSciences (NASDAQ: IART) to Outperform from Perform on valuation, the company's minimal exposure to economic conditions, and expectations for margin improvement and a rebound in organic growth.

Analyst downgrades:

Sherwin-Williams (NYSE: SHW) and AerCap Holdings (NYSE: AER) were downgraded to Neutral from Overweight at JP Morgan.
UBS downgraded Embarq (NYSE: EQ) to Neutral from Buy following the CenturyTel (NYSE: CTL) merger announcement.